Presidential Aide Nii Lantey Vanderpuije is calling on executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to discipline its Youth Organizer for threats he is alleged to have issued over the 2012 elections. The youth organizer, Anthony Karbo, is reported to have said on Radio Gold that the NPP would employ violence and intimidation at the polls. He allegedly said it was the same ploy the ruling party devised during the last general elections to win power. Karbo is again said to have added that Ghana would be like Afghanistan if the Electoral Commission fail to declare the NPP winner of the next elections. But Mr Vanderpuije, who was speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme Monday, described the comments as unfortunate, adding that “if he [Anthony Karbo] knew the sort of thing happening in Afghanistan and he does not have a mental hemorrhage, he would not say such things.” He however warned that if the executives of the NPP refuse to call their youth organizer to order, the ruling National Democratic Congress would assume that what Karbo said is truly his party’s position and would prepare adequately to meet them. But Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, the Executive Director of the Danquah Institute, who was a co-panelist on the TV programme, noted that Mr Karbo had denied ever saying such things. According to him, the NPP’s position is that they would not allow the ruling NDC to cheat them as they did during the last elections. Gabby said he was uncertain of the posture the NPP would assume in the coming election, emphasizing rather the need to “minimize the concerns about our electoral process by going e-voting.” By: Dorcas Efe Mensah/myjoyonline.com